12-letter words containing m, e, s, o, n
- norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- normlessness — Quality of being normless.
- normotension — normal blood pressure
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- northernmost — farthest north.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- numerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- numinousness — The state or quality of being numinous.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
- omnipresence — present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
- omnisciences — Plural form of omniscience.
- omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
- one-man show — a show with only one performer
- operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmodedness — The condition of being outmoded.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- perispomenon — (of a Greek word) bearing a circumflex accent on the last syllable
- permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumococcus — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
- point system — Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point (def 48a).
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- postponement — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.